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Investment of more than
$1,000,000 in a new Simpson
Timber Company overlay
plywood plant which will replace
the outmoded Olympic Plywood
Plant on the Shelton waterfront is
scheduled for 1974, H. P.
Sandstrom, Northwest Operations
Manager, announced this week.
The new plant will complete
Simpson's central veneer
operation at Shelton which was
built in 1964. Some 20,000
square feet of the present
plywood warehouse and
construction of a 15,000 square
foot addition to that building will
accommodate the new overlay
facility.
Sandstrom said the
improvement will enable Simpson
to increase its daily production of
overlay plywood from the 85,000
square feet now manufactured at
Olympic to 105,000 square feet.
Simpson plants in Washington,
Oregon and California produce 60
per cent of the overlay plywood
used in the United States for
concrete forms, highway signs and
other purposes
The new overlay facility is the
final improvement in a series of
investments exceeding $20
million which Simpson has made
in Shelton in the last decade. The
era of renovation has resulted in a
complete rebuilding of Simpson's
industrial waterfront which began
with the razing of the old Reed
and McCleary mills and their
replacement with Sawmills Three
and Four.
Following improvements were
expansion of the Insulating Board
Plant, extension of the waterfront
work area, construction of the
Remanufacturing Plant and
lumber drying kilns and
establishment of the dry land log
sorting yard and related
waterfront facilities for handling
bundled logs. Last year a $2.7
million renovation of Mill Three
was completed for processing
quality lumber out of
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second-growth logs down to five
inches in diameter.
The Olympic Plant has
operated since 1941. The building
and site will be retained by
Simpson pending further study.
Discussion of transferring
Olympic employees to the
completed facility will begin soon
with their union representatives.
Equipment for the new plant
is being ordered for installation
next year, according to W. R.
Francis, manager of Simpson's
Northwest plywood operations.
Construction is expected to begin
in about two months.
Francis said the Olympic
Plant has made a "great
contribution" to Simpson's
growth as a plywood
manufacturer over the past 30
years. Olympic has long been a
leader in safety performance
within Simpson and the industry.
Monday the crews began their
2,647th consecutive day without
a disabling injury.
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The Mason County Parks and
~,ecreation Board Tuesday
:eceived approval of a $55,201.50
allocation of state funds for the
development of a county park at
Mason Lake.
Five young people from the
Seattle area, including two
juvenile boys, were arrested here
on charges of taking a motor
vehicle without the permission of
the owner.
They were arrested shortly
after 8 p.m. Saturday about 2½
miles south of Shelton on
Highway 101 in a car which had
been reported stolen from the
Safeway parking lot half an hour
earlier.
The arrests were made by a
Washington State Trooper.
Arrested were Steven
Philipsen, 20, 2652 15th W.,
Seattle; Jonathan M. Lilly, 19,
7136 Beach Dr. SW, Seattle, and
Lisa Dickinson, 19, 2655 14th
Ave. W., Seattle, and two juvenile
boys, one 17 and one 16, both
from the Seattle area.
The two juvenile boys were
remanded to juvenile authorities
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The grant was approved by
the State Interagency Committee
on Outdoor Recreation.
The grant included $18,400
from Referendum 28 funds and
$36,801 from Land and Water
Conservation funds.
The state grant amounts to 75
per cent of the estimated cost of
the project, $73,602. The
remaining 25 per cent will be
provided by the county.
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and the three older ones were
held in Mason County Jail
pending filing of formal charges
against them.
The events which led to the
arrests started about 7:30 p.m.
Saturday when Geraldine C.
Brooks, Shelton, reported to
Shelton Police her 1964 car had
been stolen from the Safeway
parking lot.
Officers were told by a
witness they had seen three
people get into the vehicle and
drive west on Railroad Avenue.
A description of the vehicle
was broadcast, and about 8 p.m. a
state trooper radioed he was
following the vehicle south on
Highway 101.
The vehicle stopped and fire
five young people were arrested.
The county park board has
been working on the proposal for
more than a year, and, after
having funding rejected once,
revised the plan and submitted it
again.
The park board also has a
proposal for development at
Walker Park which may be
submitted for funding at the April
meeting of the state committee.
The proposed development at
Mason Lake includes a swimming
area, boat moorage and launch,
children's play areas, picnic areas,
rest rooms, bath houses, 15
parking spots for cars with boat
trailers, 51 spaces for car parking,
four parking spaces for the
handicapped, a galne area
which includes a children's play
area, swings, tetherball, volleyball,
badminton, horseshoes, an area
for handicvpped gaines and an
archery range.
The proposal also includes
nature trails.
Our drive-up window
will close at
3 p.m.,
Monday, December 24
and
Monday, December 31
Happy Holidays
NA TIONA L BA
SHELTON BRANCH
Pickets, who had been at the
Mason County Courthouse since
last Wednesday on behalf of the
sherifrs deputies, were withdrawn
Monday after a meeting between
the county commissioners, Sheriff
Dan McNair and Bob Whitmarsh,
financial secretary of IWA Local
3-38
The IWA local, which
Tepresents a union formed by the
deputy sheriffs earlier this year,
New program
getting
A program recently initiated
in the Shelton School District is
designed to assist students who
have learning problems in getting
work experience.
"[he program is under the
direction of Susan Williams, who
wits recently hired by the school
district as Vocational Resources
Coordinator. The program is
being funded by a federal grant.
Ms. Williams said she has 31
students in the ninth, tenth,
eleventh and twelfth grades. She
said the program will utilize
classroom study, field trips, guest
speakers and work experience
She has sent letters to
businesses in the city about the
program and will follow up with
contact in person or by
tele phone.
She is trying to place the
students in part-time jobs with
the various businesses.
She said the students are some
who are slow learners and have
been having problems in the
regular classrooms. The objective
is to get them out of the
classroom and into a job part of
the day.
She stated she has some
employers who have indicated
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had placed the pickets accusing
the county of refitsing to bargain
in good faith.
The meeting between the
officials and union representatives
was arranged by Prosecuting
Attorney Byron McClanahan
McNair said a Seattle law firm
has been hired by the county to
prepare a counter-proposal to a
proposed contract submitted by
the union several months ago.
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they are willing to take students,
and is now in the process of
trying to match the students to
those jobs which are available.
As part of her job, she will
contact the students and
employers to ~ coordinate the
program and to try to"wo'rk out
problems which may arise.
It was agreed the
counter-proposal would be
presented at the commission
meeting Monday.
After receiving assurance the
counter-proposal would be
submitted and discussion would
continue, Whitmarsh agreed to
withdraw the pickets.
The pickets were IWA
members. No county employees
took part, since they are
prevented from doing so under
civil service regulations.
Whitmarsh said the pickets
were started when he did not
receive any word from the county
after the last meeting the two
groups had, and that telephone
calls he made to McNair were not
returned.
McNair said it was his
understanding the attorney hired
by the county was to contact
Whitmarsh
Jury
starts
A Mason County Superior
Court jury will begin Monday
morning to hear a first degree
assault case against Elmer Lindsey,
Tacoma.
Lindsey is charged with using a
gun to attempt to force a
16-year-old Seattle girl to drive
him to Tacoma. During the events
which followed, Lindsey was shot
in the face.
He has been held in Mason
County Jail since being released
from St. Peter Hospital in
Olympia, where he was treated for
his injuries.
Jurors will report at 9:30 a.m.
to begin the case.
Lindsey is represented
Olympia attorney Ed Holm
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Christmas Peppers ........................ 400
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Terrariums ............. 7"- *26's
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Just off the highway on Mt. View at 117 East "C" Street
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